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title: The good woman, being sadly frightened, gave him all she had: for th… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The good woman, being sadly frightened, gave him all she had: for this Ogre was a very good husband, though he used to eat up little children. Who acts: good woman, woman, this, thumb. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 129

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The good woman, being sadly frightened, gave him all she had: for this Ogre was a very good husband, though he used to eat up little children.

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**Who acts:** good woman, woman, this, thumb · **What happens:** be, give, have, use, eat up · **To what, where:** good woman, all, thumb, little children

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good woman, woman, this, thumb), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg503:33:129
# text = The good woman, being sadly frightened, gave him all she had: for this Ogre was a very good husband, though he used to eat up little children.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	cop	_	_
6	sadly	sadly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	obj	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
16	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	nsubj	_	_
17	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	very	very	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund |  | the good woman *not said here* |  |  |  | frighten, sadly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | past | the good woman | all | thumb |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient all=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | this |  |  |  |  | for a good husband | tree rules |
| 5 | **use** | past | thumb |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **eat up** | to-infinitive | thumb *not said here* | little children |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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